J. Timothy Davis, PhD, has spent the last three decades working with challenging boys and their families. He is a former researcher of male development and as a psychologist he specializes in treating males of all ages. He was also a volunteer firefighter with the Swarthmore Fire and Protective Association. Dr. Davis's writing has won prestigious academic awards, including the Menninger Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Deutsche Prize of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years and currently is in private practice near Boston.